Gas firm snubs inquiry into power blackouts

The independent Member for Nelson, Gerry Wood, says he asked Northern Territory Gas to attend yesterday's Council of Territory Cooperation sittings but the company declined.

Power and Water attended and answered questions about an incident in November last year when the Weddell Power Station lost its gas supply without warning, causing widespread blackouts.

Power and Water said the gas was cut due to water in the pipeline owned by NT Gas.

Mr Wood says it is important for the public to know that its power supply is secure and he would urge NT Gas to attend a future meeting.

"We're not necessarily saying that they've done anything bad or that," he said.

"But what we're saying is that we need to know what happened.

"And if there are some problems with some of the equipment that does supply the gas to Power and Water generators then we need to make sure that those faults are fixed and that we don't have this problem again."